Monday, April 25, 2016

(chorus)There's a filthy rich school in CambridgeAnd across the Charles River, tooIt got rich by evading taxesAnd that's How Harvard Rules.(verses)Enron ripped off consumers and engaged in accounting fraudWhile a top Enron executive sat on Harvard's boardA policy group at Harvard got big money from EnronTo produce biased research that backed no regulationAnd before Enron went bankrupt and its executives were sent to jailEnron paid Harvard profs to say "Enron is doing well." (chorus)Harvard's Center for Risk Analysis gets sixty percent of its fundsFrom chemical, drug and oil firms like Monsanto, Lilly and ExxonDioxin, driver cell phones and second-hand smoke, Harvard claimed it "posed no risk"Since Dioxin producers, AT & T and Phillip Morris also gave Harvard gifts. (chorus)Harvard claims to be "non-profit" yet it owns billions in corporate stockAnd hundreds of acres of real estate and a New Zealand lumber forestHarvard Law and Harvard Business School are money-making machinesAnd Harvard's money managers get $20 million dollars annually. (chorus)If you're a janitor at Harvard, you don't get a living wageAnd they'll try to bust your union if you're a workers who shows some rageYet Harvard Corporation is run by billionairesAnd if you didn't go to prep school, they prefer you don't study thereExcluded by its admissions office: 90 percent of applicantsYet only Harvard graduates control the Supreme Court. (chorus)The Harvard Corporation it meets so secretlyWith all minutes kept secret except from the seven trusteesIt secretly picks a president who won't challenge corporate greedSo Microsoft gives millions for a new engineering buildingHarvard secretly bought up real estate in Boston's Allston neighborhoodAnd drove out working-class tenants so Harvard's campus can expand. (chorus)